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WHICH WAS UNBELIEVABLE TO SAY THE LEAST.... FOR MOST OF AMERICA AT THE TIME BUT FOR THE BIGOTS AND HATERS A VERY RUDE AWAKENING THERE WAS A DIFFERENT KIND OF CH...
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WHICH WAS UNBELIEVABLE TO SAY THE LEAST.... FOR MOST OF AMERICA AT THE TIME BUT FOR THE BIGOTS AND HATERS A VERY RUDE AWAKENING THERE WAS A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHAMPION... "WHO WAS BETTER THAN ALL THOSE BEFORE HIM N SPOKE HIS MIND AND DIDN'T CARE WHAT ANYONE THOUGHT.. CAUSE IT WAS TRUTH OF WHAT THIS MAN MUHAMMAD ALI SAW AS HE GREW UP TO KNOW, THEN HE GREW TO HATE INJUSTICE, AS ANY MAN WOULD. THIS HEAVY HANDED MAN SONNY LISTON (CRUMPLED UP ON THE MAT) HE WAS FEARED LIKE TYSON OR A YOUNG GEORGE FOREMAN. HE HAD HANDS WITH FISTS THE SIZE OF A SMALL HAMS... A MONSTER OF MAN, WELL THESE BIGOTS SAW SONNY LISTON HIT THE FLOOR & i'M SURE, WELL THEY KNEW AFTER THIS GUY LISTON FOLDED UP N OUT IN ROUND ONE....THEY (THOSE BIGOTS N THE PEOPLE WHO LOVED ALI KNEW) ALI MIGHT BE AROUND A VERY LONG TIME AND THINGS WERE CHANGING... BEFORE ALI VERY LITTLE MONEY WAS PAID TO ANY ATHLETE NEVER, A MILLION BUCKS FOR ANYTHING IN SPORTS.... DURING ALI'S TIME HE 82 MILLION DURING BOXING... AFTER ALI LOOK WHAT THEY GET PAID TODAY.... ALI DID THAT AND SO MUCH MORE. MY HERO MUHAMMAD ALI 3 TIMES USA GOLDEN GLOVE CHAMPION (BEFORE AGE 17) THEN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST AT 18 AND UNDISPUTED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD AT 22 YRS OLD AND AT THAT TIME THE ONLY 3 TIME WORLD HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION EVER. HE WAS SOMETHING TO SEE TOUGH AS NAILS THOUGH HE NEVER LOOKED IT.
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derekoliver
June 24, 2016
i MADE THIS FROM A OLD BLACK AND WHITE PHOTO AS ALI WAVES HIS RIGHT ARM AND DARES SONNY LISTON TO GET UP ! THIS IS AN ICONIC PHOTO OUT OF THE HALLS OF ON THE GREATEST OF ALL BOXING PHOTOS. I ORIGINALLY DID MY FIRST ATTEMPT AT THIS IN 2012 IT TOOK 4 YEARS FOR THIS RELEASE.
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